Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Go on a reading adventure with Sinbad the Sailor, a hero of Middle Eastern myth and a great excuse to practice reading comprehension.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

In this old Nigerian folk tale, a young villager ends up marrying a real bonehead. (Sorry, we had to.)

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Does your child have an ear for rhyme or a passion for poetry? Have her examine the rhyme scheme of this silly limerick, and soon she'll be making her own!

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.

Meet Charles Darwin, the man responsible for the theory of evolution and many other revolutionary scientific discoveries.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

You only get something out of it if you put something in! Have your child try five-part challenge, with the final goal being memorizing a poem word for word.

Kids will learn more about the meaning of a monster hoax and read about some of the most famous hoaxes.

Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress from the South, and was an inspiration to all involved in American politics.

Read part two of this classic tale by the Brothers Grimm! Enjoy a fun fairy tale series where your child can color in the illustrations herself.

Reading primary sources doesn't have to be a bore! Learn to gather information from records using data given by celebrity whom you just might know.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool violin facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

Got time to rhyme? Check out this fun rhyme scheme worksheet with two laughable limericks.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.